Chapter 1 Case of the Cat-Fetus Man: The Woman Pregnant with Cats

Meow, meow~

It was dawn, the sky was gradually turning pale, and the shrill sound of a cat came from next door.

At first glance, it seemed like a baby was crying.

Meow, meow~

The sound became more and more shrill and miserable.

Is the annoying pregnant woman next door abusing the cat? But she doesn't have a cat!

Mu Mian got up and walked to the next door. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he found that it was ajar.

"Ms. Li, please stop making noises and let your cat be quiet!"

No one responded, only the cat was still calling, mixed with the subtle sound of its sharp claws scratching things, which seemed a little creepy in the quiet early morning. There

was a familiar smell in the air.

It was the stench of fresh blood.

"Is anyone there?"

The voice echoed in the corridor.

With the dim light coming in through the off-white lace curtains, you can see the pregnant woman lying on the wooden floor.

The floor has been stained black and red by blood.

Her expression was grim, her body was twisted, her mouth was tightly sealed with black plastic cloth, and her hands were tied behind her back with ropes.

Meow, meow~

The miserable sound of a cat is coming from her bulging, slightly trembling belly.

Her belly is bulging, and the centipede-like wound seams on it are trembling along with it, and something is about to break out of the skin.

——Woo

~Woo~

The sound of the whistling police car broke the early morning tranquility of Ziweili Community.

Ziweili is a mid-range community in the old city of Jiangzhou. The house price is quite high, but the infrastructure is very backward. Some buildings don’t even have elevators installed, let alone cameras.

The structure of the community is a building with 3 units, each unit has two households. The murder occurred in Room 541, Unit 3, Building 8.

The building structure of the community is relatively closed, and there was no crowd watching the murder scene. It was quiet.

Several policemen pushed open the door and saw the woman lying in a pool of blood. Her face was distorted, her eyes were bulging with bloodshot, and she seemed to have suffered great torture before her death. The

woman's shirt was pulled up, revealing her bloody belly that had been cut open. The dirty internal organs were clearly visible, as if she had been bitten by a fierce animal, and her skin was covered with scratches.

The furniture and items in the house were neatly arranged, and there were no signs of a fight.

A person was curled up on the fabric sofa, and she was small. She was wearing white plush pajamas with a Spongebob pattern, which was stained with blood. She was holding a bloody kitten in her arms.

Meow~

Hearing the noise, the kitten with a missing ear struggled slightly and made a cry.

"Didn't the reporter say there was only one victim?"

Xiao Zhang approached the sofa and was about to check the "corpse" on the sofa, but suddenly he was met with a pair of big black eyes.

Xiao Zhang stepped back in fear, "Ah, a corpse!"

The other policemen rolled their eyes at him speechlessly, "Zhang Xiaoqiang, why are you shouting? Can't you see that it's a living person?"

Xiao Zhang watched the "corpse" sit up with her eyes wide open. She moved very slowly and paused after each move, as if she needed to gather strength before the next move.

Xiao Zhang asked in confusion, "Who are you?"

She glanced at them, then quickly looked away, looking down at the cat in her arms, "Hello, I'm the person reporting the case, my name is Mu Mian."

The policemen present looked at Mu Mian in surprise.

She looked like a high school student, with short hair, small stature, pale skin, no expression, and blood stains on her white pajamas. She looked like a murderer in a horror movie, and a mentally ill one.

"Ms. Mu, you are too careless. How can you sleep at a murder scene!"

Xiao Zhang was speechless. "What if the murderer comes back? It's too unsafe." Although she looked more like the murderer himself.

Mu Mian did not respond to him. She lowered her head and narrated to herself:

"At 21:00 this morning, I was woken up by the meowing of my neighbor's cat. At 35:00, I went to knock on the door of my neighbor, who is also the victim's house. The door was not closed. I took a look at the situation inside the house and found my neighbor lying on the ground..."

Her voice sounded like that of an AI, calm and without emotion.

Xiao Zhang couldn't help but whisper to Xiao Wang, who was squatting on the ground to extract footprints:

"Xiao Wang, do you think she is lying? Consultant Lin said that when witnesses or suspects recall the case, they usually use emotions as clues and start from the most important part. She narrated in chronological order, and the time was so precise, it is very likely that it was pre-written."

Xiao Wang nodded in agreement and whispered: "I think her mental state is not right. You see, she doesn't dare to look us in the eye. She must be guilty. Let's take her back to the bureau and let Team Fang question her."

Mu Mian seemed not to hear their whispers and continued to mechanically narrate the incident:

"I heard cat sounds coming from her stomach. Her body was still warm at that time - around 34.5℃. The temperature

drops by 1℃ per hour within 10 hours after a person dies. Although it is early spring now, it has been a cold snap recently and the air conditioner is not on in the house, so we need to use winter data. The coefficient is about 0.7. Roughly estimated, she died between 3:30 and 4:00..."

Xiao Zhang pointed to the belly of the deceased and said with his mouth wide open: "Wait, what did you say? Where did the cat sound come from?"

The people present felt a chill down their spines. They looked at the bloody abdomen of the deceased and thought of something terrible at the same time.

"At 12:37, I called the police. At 12:39, I put on gloves and used scissors to cut the stitches on the deceased's belly and rescued the poor little cat. I recorded the whole process on video. I did my best to protect the scene. If you need it, I can send it to you."

Finally, Mu Mian breathed a sigh of relief.

These people were so rude, they kept interrupting her. Fortunately, she had a strong ability to resist interference and described the incident fluently and clearly.

Meow~ The dirty little cat cried out loudly, as if agreeing with her words.

Xiao Zhang repeated in disbelief: "You said the murderer stuffed a cat into the victim's stomach?"

"Could it be that the murderer was not satisfied after killing the victim and stuffed a cat into the victim's body to humiliate the victim?"

The people present were shocked and began to discuss the murderer's motive.

"It was not to destroy the body," Mu Mian looked at the victim and corrected, "When the cat was put in, she was still alive."

"So the victim was strangled to death by the cat?"

"She is right." Forensic doctor Lao Qin has already conducted a preliminary examination of the victim's body.

He explained: "The deceased was about 8 months pregnant. The murderer forcibly cut open the deceased's stomach, took out the fetus in the stomach along with the placenta, stuffed a living animal into the deceased's uterus, and then sewed the belly shut."

Lao Qin looked at Mu Mian and the kitten in her arms, and used tweezers to pick out a cat hair from the deceased's abdominal cavity.

"It should be a cat. It was frightened and bit the deceased's stomach like crazy, so there are so many scratches on the deceased's body. Hey, most of the wounds still have signs of life, which proves that the deceased suffered great torture before his death."

Mu Mian glanced at Lao Qin, then quickly looked away and whispered: "The cause of death is hemorrhagic shock."

"That's right." Forensic Doctor Qin suddenly felt that this Mu Mian looked familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere.

Xiao Zhang exclaimed: "Oh my God, the murderer is so cruel, isn't he?"

Mu Mian agreed: "Yes. But his method of killing is very creative."

Creativity... Xiao Zhang just felt a chill down his spine. How crazy must the murderer be to stuff a live cat into a pregnant woman's belly.

Xiao Zhang looked at Mu Mian and asked in confusion, "Where is the child of the deceased? You cut open the deceased's stomach, didn't you see the child in the belly?"

"The murderer took it away." Mu Mian drooped his eyelids, almost unable to resist sleepiness. "Maybe he ate it, kept it or threw it away. You should ask the murderer about these."

"Is he so perverted?"

"I have already told you what I know," Mu Mian put the cat in Xiao Zhang's arms. "I have to go to work. Today is my first day at work and I can't be late."

Xiao Zhang looked a little embarrassed. "But you can't leave now. You need to go back to the police station with us to take a statement."

"Are we going to the municipal bureau?"

"Yes."

Mu Mian thought about it and compromised, "Okay."

Xiao Zhang thought he had to "threaten" her so that she would cooperate, but he didn't expect her to be so easy to talk to.

"It's on the way anyway." Mu Mian gave him a stiff smile, with a hint of excitement in her tone.

Xiao Zhang shuddered.

This girl looked cute, but why did she smile so weirdly? Her smile was stiff, just like a puppet in a horror movie.

And why did she smile so happily when she heard about going to the police station?